Awesome Hive account@thecryptodrive

My concerns of reducing the account creation price is however that it could increase spam accounts and botnets and make Steem a worse place overall.

Yes that could have been a problem, but according to Hive account@gtg

newly created account will have only 0.1 STEEM burned, basically rendering newly accounts unusable (without delegating them SP anyway).

So the spam-thesis will not be a problem on these accounts unless they are powered up. On the other hand - I can make 3000 accounts for free right now and sell them to rich spammers, it is a myth that spammers are poor, they are not, and they can get as many accounts as they want anyway, you know, I am sure.

For STEEM to hold a high price, we need a lot of steemians. We need it to become super easy to onboard friends to steem, even those of us who have almost no money, but a lot of friends.

I do like the benefits for apps though whereby cheaper account prices can help apps onboard more users

Yes, it will have an overall positive effect in the entire ecosystem of STEEM.

Lets do it. 30, 60 or 90 days test period with the right tools for everyone to use.